A former credit union assistant vice president was sentenced to two and half years in federal prison for embezzling $826,000 from the $223 million Pantex Federal Credit Union in Borger, Texas to buy "toys" for her late husband.

U.S. District Court Judge Mary Lou Robinson in Amarillo, Texas ordered Dorothy Stegall Barnes, 57, of Fritch, Texas, who also went by the last name of Newman, to pay restitution totaling $797,336 and serve five years of supervised release following her prison sentence.

Stegall pleaded guilty in September to embezzlement.

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